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Originally Posted by Locke
1. Star Power sells tickets. Because Kids are not educated fans, they're there to see their heroes and parents will take them, without star power ticket sales suffer. Thats fairly straightforward.
2. Cost of tickets vs. Payroll Expense is irrelevant. Its not about how much they're spending on payroll its about overall costs and pricing tickets as to what the market will bear.
Of course the Flames want the building packed every night, but a full building and a cap team was a saw-off, so a mostly full building and lower payroll is actually profitable.
Either way, there are standards that have to be maintained, they cant just lower the ticket prices because they 'suck.' If that were the case Oiler games should have been free for the last 20 years.
Oh, and the Flames dont 'suck.' Watching this team is some of the most fun I've had in years, but yes, its still ridiculously expensive to go games.
Therefore I watch games at home, I pour my own heroin into my beer and I've taught my wife to make pocket dawgs.
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I agree with everything in your post, particularly the part about your wife making pocket dogs.
All I'm saying is that I don't think attendance is tied to beer prices, which is what quoted poster was saying. Also yes the average fan right now thinks that the Flames suck. CP is not the average fan.